It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”

Again he says, “I will be confident in him,” and again, “Here I am, with the children God has given me.”

When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” (which are offered according to the law),

For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is subdued and has been subdued by humankind.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

Demetrius has been testified to by all, even by the truth itself. We also testify to him, and you know that our testimony is true.

and has appointed us as a kingdom, as priests serving his God and Father – to him be the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God – the one who is, and who was, and who is still to come – the All-Powerful!

“To the angel of the church in Smyrna write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who is the first and the last, the one who was dead, but came to life:

And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

Then the second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain of burning fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea became blood,

They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.

Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.